User Clip: Gideon v. Wainwright and the Right to Counsel 661 Views Program ID: 311892-1 Category: Interview Format: Interview Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Purchase a ...

March 18 is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, requiring that people who cannot afford lawyers are provided with a public defender.

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), entrenched in American folklore by a best-selling book and a popular film, was one of the most famous decisions rendered by the Warren Court. In a ...

As the true-life protagonist in the case of Gideon v. Wainright shared the same name as the biblical hero, by a clever literary device, Anthony Lewis, the author of the 1964 book which memorialized ...

Lisa Wroble talked about her book, [The Right to Counsel: From Gideon v. Wainwright to Gideon's Trumpet (Famous Court Cases That Became Movies)]. In June 1961, Clarence E. Gideon was arrested and ...

The exhibit features videos detailing the Gideon v. Wainwright decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963, which guarantees a defendant’s right to legal counsel.

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), entrenched in American folklore by a bestselling book and a popular film, was one of the most famous decisions rendered by the Warren court. In a landmark opinion that ...

Description Jurists and attorneys talked about the impact of Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 Supreme Court landmark case that ruled criminal defendants at the state level have a right to counsel.

Now over 50 years since that Gideon v. Wainwright decision, Franklin's book puts into perspective the challenges confronted by he and a group of lawyers defending the poor, mostly African-American ...

The accompanying piece about the legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright is long -- probably longer than my dear editors would have liked -- but in many important ways it is not long enough.